Sunday June 23rd, 2002

By Will Gray

Ferrari claimed first blood on race day at the Nurburgring when Brazilian Rubens Barrichello and his World Champion teammate Michael Schumacher topped the times in the Sunday morning warm-up for the European Grand Prix.

The overcast conditions that greeted the teams in the morning and looked set to remain for the rest of the day dropped temperatures to 16 degrees as the weather played into the hands of the teams on Bridgestone tyres.

Briton David Coulthard and his McLaren-Mercedes team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, of Finland, in third and fourth places respectively, were the only two Michelin-shod cars in the top ten.

German Schumacher, who will start from third on the grid behind the two Williams-BMW cars of Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya and his own brother Ralf, finished just three tenths of a second behind Barrichello as their Williams-BMW rivals struggled.

Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who usually goes well in the warm-up sessions in his Arrows, was up in the top times again despite a brief off early in the session and claimed fifth fastest time but was more than one and a half seconds off the pace of the lead Ferrari.

The Jordan-Honda pair of Takuma Sato and Giancarlo Fisichella, who had a disastrous qualifying session on Saturday and will line up 14th and 18th on the grid, set up well for the race with sixth and seventh places respectively.

Honda-powered rivals British American Racing also claimed top ten places with Canadian Jacques Villeneuve eighth and his French teammate Olivier Panis ninth fastest as Felipe Massa, in the Sauber, completed the top ten.

Pole position man Montoya was way down in 17th place, while team-mate Ralf Schumacher was 14th fastest, one place behind the Minardi of Australian Mark Webber.

Pos  Driver        Team                   Time                    Laps
 1.  Barrichello   Ferrari           (B)  1:32.671  199.830 km/h  12  
 2.  M.Schumacher  Ferrari           (B)  1:32.987    +    0.316  14  
 3.  Coulthard     McLaren Mercedes  (M)  1:34.143    +    1.472  14  
 4.  Raikkonen     McLaren Mercedes  (M)  1:34.324    +    1.653  12  
 5.  Frentzen      Arrows Cosworth   (B)  1:34.461    +    1.790  13  
 6.  Sato          Jordan Honda      (B)  1:34.804    +    2.133  14  
 7.  Fisichella    Jordan Honda      (B)  1:34.914    +    2.243  12  
 8.  Villeneuve    BAR Honda         (B)  1:34.969    +    2.298  14  
 9.  Panis         BAR Honda         (B)  1:35.145    +    2.474  12  
10.  Massa         Sauber Petronas   (B)  1:35.460    +    2.789  15  
11.  Bernoldi      Arrows Cosworth   (B)  1:35.545    +    2.874  12  
12.  Heidfeld      Sauber Petronas   (B)  1:35.550    +    2.879  16  
13.  Webber        Minardi Asiatech  (M)  1:35.614    +    2.943  14  
14.  R.Schumacher  Williams BMW      (M)  1:35.615    +    2.944  13  
15.  de la Rosa    Jaguar Cosworth   (M)  1:35.656    +    2.985  13  
16.  Button        Renault           (M)  1:35.749    +    3.078   9  
17.  Montoya       Williams BMW      (M)  1:35.978    +    3.307   5  
18.  Salo          Toyota            (M)  1:36.146    +    3.475  14  
19.  McNish        Toyota            (M)  1:36.200    +    3.529  11  
20.  Trulli        Renault           (M)  1:37.370    +    4.699  10  
21.  Irvine        Jaguar Cosworth   (M)  1:37.598    +    4.927  11  
22.  Yoong         Minardi Asiatech  (M)  1:38.060    +    5.389  13  

All Timing Unofficial

Published at 08:04:32 GMT

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